
The Alternative Top 40 is a monthly music chart shared across multiple music blogs, and a great way of discovering music you might not have heard elsewhere. You can contribute to the #AltTop40 by simply naming your favorite tracks of the moment - for full details of how to nominate music, see the latest post about the chart at Universal Horse.
The Alt Top 40 is not based on sales, or radio play – or, indeed, any form of objective measure. Instead, anyone who wants can simply tell us the tracks they want to see in the chart, and the more people we hear about a track from, the higher up it goes. So there are two ways that you can contribute to and directly influence future editions of the Alternative top 40:
1. Jack Adaptor - Get It Right First Time

2. Noura Mint Seymali - Tzenni
3. Hazel Winter - YDFLM
4. Swans - She Loves Us
5. Lana del Rey - West Coast
6. Parquet Courts - Bodies Made Of
7. Rabit - Red Candles
8. Jemima Surrender - My Little Brother
9. St Vincent - Your Lips Are Red
10. Kogumaza - NB / Kолокол / Ursids
11. Patrick Duff - Thought Birds / +12. SJ Esau - Frustrating / +13. Fingersnap - Blackbirds / +14. Tune-Yards - Gangsta / +15. Alicia Catling - Mighty Fine / +16. Laurel Halo - Supersymmetry / +17. Sia - Chandelier / +18. Julie Fowlis - Ged a Sheol Mi Air M'aineol / +19. Bob Mould - The War / +20. Marilyn Manson - Disposable Teens / +21. Happyness - Great Minds Think Alike, All Brains Taste the Same / +22. Daisy Victoria - Macbeth to my Lady / +23. Tape Waves - Looking at the Sun / +24. Roddy Frame - Postcard / +25. Steve Mason - All Come Down/ +26. Robert Plant - Little Maggie / +27. SJ Esau - Soul II Skull / +28. Carla Bozulich - Lazy Crossbones / +29. FKA Twigs - Two Weeks / +30. Jemima Surrender - Anathema / +31. Michael O'Neill - Cheetham Hill Speed Scene / +32. Melt Yourself Down - Fix My Life / +33. Mankind - Blood Sugar / +34. Shacklock Meth Party - Johnny B Goode/ +35. Manic Street Preachers - Europa Geht Durch Mich / +36. Patrick Duff - Maria / +37. Tune-Yards - Left Behind / +38. Path - Apocalyptica feat. Sandra Nasic / +39. Camper van Beethoven - It Was Like That When We Got Here / +40. Archie Bronson Outfit - In White Relief / +
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If you have a website, zine, podcast or similar and would like to host the chart there too, get in touch at alternativetop40@gmail.com. Firstly, if you tell us what you think are the best 5 tracks in the world this week, we’ll compile them into the next edition of the chart. At the end of this post there’s a contact form where you can fill your choices in, or just email your selection to alternativetop40@gmail.com - best one first. You can pick anything you like – from any time, and any place – with the exception of your own music or a band you work for. Five is the maximum: if you can only think of a couple you want to name, send them in anyway...
This month's chart was shaped by
Record Rewind Play - DrunkenWerewolf - God Is In The TV - Neon Filler – RW/FF - Monolith Cocktail